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Jim Benson (OurFounder)

@ourfounder.bsky.social
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Author of Personal Kanban and The Collaboration Equation. Partner at Modus Institute. Think a lot about how people can treat each other well & work together to solve things, am tired of the alternative. Punk, urban planner, aids activist, in no order.

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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I read this as "oil companies using WA and OR as high price test markets show the elasticity of demand for oil is nearly non existent, they are drug dealers and can charge all states the same as they've charged in the PNW for years."
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's the only doom that there just too little of
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Typing isn't a provable act. You could be a scheduler bot scanning text and being pseudo-sentient.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you thought it was the book, well...that's right here! amzn.to/3VdNSRh This message provided by the Department of Unredacted Information and Clickbait, HOMEGA, ExtremelyLLC. We are liable for nothing. Questions? Please email us at noreply@titanauts.com.
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Amazon.com: The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces: 9798995844303: Benson, Jim: Books
Amazon.com: The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces: 9798995844303: Benson, Jim: Books
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Comment to defend or deny your abject terror to read "this". Also...what did you think "this" was? For quality purposes our staff is anonymous, protected under aggressive NDAs, and cannot speak in public for any reason.
Official HOMEGA graphic, Department of Unredacted Information and Clickbait, stamped CLICKBAIT in red so nobody can say they weren't told. Left: the cover of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces, a woman in glasses staring out of a ship's porthole with an expression of "great, another problem." and a red WITHHELD stamp across the sky above her. Right: MOST PEOPLE ARE TOO AFRAID TO READ THIS. ARE YOU? in green, then three checkboxes nobody has ticked: too afraid to read it right now, in three months, forever. Below that, a paragraph accusing you of secretly reading it already. Bottom: a fake comment box asking "Too afraid, or reading it right now?" The book is by Jim Benson. It is on titanauts.com and Amazon. Audio book out in Q4 2026.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jim Benson You can doom scroll, or you can just look at this. Doom is an acquired condition that is forced on you. If you feel otherwise, of course, you can comment all the live-long day! This is a message from the HOMEGA Dept of Unredacted Information and Clickbait.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
titanauts.com | amzn.to/4yT2GU8
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not yet, unfortunately all other avenues are tremendous work and 1/5 the author compensation. They are also owned by different, less publicly known, oligarchs. I will get to it, but it's going to take a bit.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have released a book...my sixth! The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces, my novel about everything we to for and to each other at work, set with a murder, peril, intrigue, and coffee...is out now and available for purchase. If you've liked anything I've written, you will love this.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And now it is released!
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I scraped two ugly social media presences for a friend, built a plan, and had claude create them a gorgeous web site. It took about a half hour to have something to show them...with my perfectionism. I think classic have-to-visit social media is about to go away. I don't know what comes next.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces is released, it's live. It's a real book with pages and everything! This was a long process to be sure. humanework.substack.com/p/out-today-...
humanework.substack.com
OUT TODAY: The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Jim Benson’s first novel is novelly novelled.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And I can be clearer about the role of relationships, stress, and coffee in daily life. The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces launches 18 Sept 2026.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow the Titanuts launch...off we go. I wrote this because business books didn't let me tell a story...to provide context. The book covers what my other books have, but with "real" people in surreal conditions. I can be clearer about the role of relationships, stress, and coffee in daily life.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Farms are also viewed at rugged individualists, but those are usually the unproductive farms. Collaboration has been the backbone of farming and always will be. They play a central role in The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces. Two days from Launch.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Most battles are fought at the expense of the family farm. Right now, wars waged around the world impact people in the "middle of nowhere" that discovered that they were somehow pawn in someone else's poor problem solving.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They gotta be pretty enough for Pete
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This requires debate. This Friday, The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces will hit the shelves. titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Weak leaders surround themselves with praise and get very upset when challenged. When team building you want people who can work together. Work is solving problems. Solving problems is learning. Learning is having something you didn't think yesterday become a thing you are thinking today.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They left out "hot"
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Undue influence can be redirected. Impact can be curated.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In The Social Life of Small Enclosed spaces, the garch class does a lot of harm and some are...integrated. 5 days to the launch of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces ... 18 Sept 2026
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oligarchs and CEOs are often sociopaths and narcissists. Not all of them, this isn't clickbait, but a lot of them. They also, through this, often bring a very necessary energy to a new endeavor. We all have potential positive impact.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I got on a plane and a woman sat next to me, pulled out my book, started excitedly telling me how personal Kanban works. I kept trying to stop her, but she said nonono! And kept going. Finally she turns the book over, sees me picture and looks at me. I said "hi". She handed me a sharpie.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
titanauts.com is where the book description be.
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We often act in helpful ways that inflict help. We do nice that hurts, we make features that ruin the experience. We want to be nice, but don't want to do the work required to find out what nice is. Social Life launches in a mere week. link in the image there...
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
While teaching in Montana last week, I was telling people they needed to be helpful to others but not undervalue their own emergencies. A group of state employees trying to build better ways of working then learned about my mom who is always there for others, but very unlikely to ever ask for help.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is good you have adult supervison.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When you wake up at 5 am for meetings, your day looks like this before noon. You find yourself saying, "It's only noon, why I am so wiped?!" It's because...you've done the work. It's okay...leave...the...desk.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Agency is people working together to get things done, each of them knowing what they can do to make things better. Strangely, that is all any of us want to be. It is the definition of success. 8 days until the titans launch. titantauts.com
graphic for The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces. Elena, a hopeful middle-aged woman with short curly light-brown hair and a dark green jacket, stands alone inside a spacious transparent geodesic dome. Beyond the dome, Titan’s hazy orange atmosphere glows over a subdued alien landscape. Centered over a dark translucent panel is the quote: “We have a chance, here, now, to be the people we always wanted to be.” The attribution reads “Elena · p. 389 · §Epilogue,” with “titanauts.com” at the top and the book title at the bottom.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Positional power bewilders. You become a "leader" and immediately start leading in mass distraction, every variation seems like incompetence. You start asking for metrics, for proof of competence. You start professionally judging people with scant information. 9 days to Titan launch. titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Now is such an idiot. I will be so glad when it is not-now.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Those are good days, aren't they? When you just sort of look at them and are like, "Yeah, I'd totally repeat that decision."
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can find the pre-sales site for The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces at... titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It takes guts to solve problems, confront your feelings or those of others, or be a leader that knows when and how to help someone. Blaming, berating, and making the focus all about you is the sign of a manipulator, not a leader. 10 days to the launch of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Totally heard. Years ago I said that twitter was not social media, it was a utility. Like power or water...and that if we didn't get it away from the false-profit motive it would be destroyed. Facebook is also a utility. Amazon is a marketplace controlled by one vendor.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Right now, a layoff economy and market uncertainty as primary strategy of oligarchs and heavily trading administration officials means people face this every day. Afraid to quit bad jobs not knowing what tomorrow holds. This toxicity is part of Laura's world. 12 days to launch! titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is because we've set up a system of acquiescence to authority. When people can't behave professionally, they shut down or they act in a better way. Thankfully when you are on a spaceship people can't just fire you for questioning bad decisions. 13 days to Launch of Titanauts. titanauts.com
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When people tell you to tell them what to do it means one thing and one thing only...They don't know what they _can_ do and can only ask for what to do. titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It is so hard right now to enage in real social media because there is so much of this. I tried to build a set of parodies of click bait that ... were impossible to write because clickbait is already unbelievable and that's why it works. It's not disinformation anymore...it's like anti-information.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nothing is perfect. Being negative is always guaranteed success but at the expense of everyone around you. No outcome is entirely flawed. Look for celebration, win, thing to build on. There is too much tearing down. Let's go up. The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces out in 14 days titanauts.com
Square quote graphic showing Laura Marquez in a spacecraft under construction. Wearing a dark technical uniform and glasses, she stands in profile holding a tablet and stylus beside exposed wiring, control panels, hard hats, building materials, and crew members working near a large window overlooking Earth.

Overlaid text reads: “No matter the outcome, there are always infinite mistakes to count.” The attribution is “Laura Marquez · p. 240 · §8:3,” with The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces displayed along the bottom.  titanauts.com
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
14 days until the launch of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces. Think of this as a space opera with systems thinking, org design, urban planning, queerish stuff, and a lot of humor wrapped in an ongoing commentary on the current Oligarch-driven anti-culture in which we live. titanauts.com
A dark blue square graphic featuring a quote from Dr. Kalama alongside a portrait of an older woman with graying hair holding a green mug in a dimly lit, high-tech cabin.

The overlay text on the left side reads:

“When pressure is put on the system, the only thing that keeps us alive is whether we’ve learned to actually care about each other. And they can’t care about someone they’re measuring like a lab rat.”

Citation below: "Dr. Kalama · p. 141 · §5:4"

Top branding: "titanauts.com" accompanied by an abstract logo.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces is open for pre-orders, launches July 14. You can also pick up the mug. It's at titanauts.com.
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Laura is an organizational psychologist on a corporate-funded spaceship. 100 people, 1 "closed" system, 3 years to Titan. She's caught between the belief that the right space can coax decency out of people, and dealing with the fact that who controls the space and why is also of painful importance.
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I put it on a mug. The other side of the mug says something colder: "You don't hide it. You control the narrative." I realized that I could write all the business books in my head, and only provide frameworks. So...I wrote a full system.
titanauts.com
The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces
Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Someone has to believe the right space can coax out something decent from people." That's most of what I believe about work in one sentence. Design the environment well & people surprise you. Design it thoughtlessly & no amount of posters or certifications will save you. It's at titanauts.com.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Life in April 2026
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Oh, I thought that would give an image for the site.
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Jim Benson (OurFounder) @ourfounder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I have the first pages from my layout guy and am thrilled with what Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces is shaping up to be. Yes, I've been quiet on Bluesky... see what I've been working on here.. titanauts.com
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